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Thirty Three Shields & Compartments FOR Monumental Inscriptions, Coats of Arms, &c Of Great Use to Artists & Others, Neatly Engrav'd from the Designs of that Curious Architect, MR JAM: GIBBS. 1731.

Print
1731 (first published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Unnumbered titleplate and 1 of 11 numbered plates. Each plate has three different designs for cartouches which are themselves numbered from 1 through to 33.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThirty Three Shields & Compartments FOR Monumental Inscriptions, Coats of Arms, &c Of Great Use to Artists & Others, Neatly Engrav'd from the Designs of that Curious Architect, MR JAM: GIBBS. 1731. (suite title)
Materials and techniques
engraving
Brief description
James Gibbs (after), 1 of 12 plates, from 'Thirty Three Shields & Compartments for Monumental Inscriptions, Coats of Arms, &c ...', London, 1731.
Physical description
Unnumbered titleplate and 1 of 11 numbered plates. Each plate has three different designs for cartouches which are themselves numbered from 1 through to 33.
Dimensions
  • Average size to plate mark height: 10.5cm
  • Average size to plate mark width: 23.2cm
Bibliographic reference
Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 518, no. 10.
Collection
Accession number
E.114-1898

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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